Posted on 07/02/2015 3:54:03 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
An Arizona man charged with killing a married couple who went missing more than a week ago 'essentially confessed' to shooting them dead during a suspected drug deal gone wrong and then burying the bodies in his backyard, authorities revealed this afternoon.
Jose Valenzuela, 38, of Maricopa, was arrested early Thursday morning on two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Michael and Tina Careccia.
The couple, who have five children between the two of them, were last seen alive leaving their Maricopa home on the morning of June 22. Mr Careccia's 17-year-old son reported them missing that night after he could not reach them.
Jose Valenzuela was taken into custody after police officers discovered the bodies of a man and a woman buried in Valenzuela’s backyard.
During a press conference Thursday afternoon, Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu told reporters that when questioned by police, Valenzuela 'essentially confessed' to the murders, recounting for the officers how he shot the husband and wife with a .22-caliber handgun and then borrowed a backhoe to bury their bodies behind his house.
Deputies were able to recover the suspected murder weapon while executing a search warrant at Valenzuela’s house Wednesday...
The couple's abandoned 2008 Honda Accord was found Monday about a half-mile away from their home, covered in dirt.
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Excellent point! While it's safe to say the meth didn't improve his thinking process, it's rank emotionalism to say his crime is an "indictment" of meth, or drugs in general.
Not eliminated but reduced to no more than the level of alcohol crime.
and if you can't afford them, the government will give you your daily fix dose of medicine free of charge.
I'm against that (as is every libertarian I know of).
And since all the stress involved in procuring drugs will be eliminated, the possibility of the self-medicated going nuts and killing people for the joy of it will be a thing of the past.
"Stress" is the opposite of "joy." But I think you're right that lowering legally-imposed stress will reduce violence. As for "self-medicated going nuts and killing people for the joy of it": I know of no case where someone known to have no propensity for violence for the joy of it acquired that propensity under the influence of any drug; it seems that people with a propensity for antisocial behavior are disproportionately likely to use legal and illegal drugs.
Of course they'd be regulated, as pot is in the states that have legalized it and as the drug alcohol is in every state.
drugs are at the root of many a crime; they are not victimless.
If someone commits a crime while underslept, do we conclude that sleeping too little is "not victimless"?
I knew that. I guess you missed the sarcasm...
As opposed to not breathing because the male sex anatomy is in your mouth, like yours?
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